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President Trump has instructed the State Department to issue an order to enforce a worldwide “one flag” policy, meaning only the Stars and Stripes can be flown on U.S. embassies.

The order, signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio decrees that only the American flag can be flown, and any other type of flag is prohibited.

“Starting immediately, only the United States of America flag is authorized to be flown or displayed at U.S. facilities, both domestic and abroad, and featured in U.S. government content,” the order states.

”The flag of the United States of America united all Americans under the universal principles of justice, liberty, and democracy,” the order continues, adding “These values, which are the bedrock of our great country, are shared by all American citizens, past and present.”

The order further states that any employee who flouts the new rule will “face disciplinary action, including termination of employment or contract, or reassignment to their home agency.”

“The U.S. flag is a powerful symbol of pride and it is fitting and respectful that only the U.S. flag be flown or displayed at U.S. facilities, both domestically and abroad,” the policy memorandum emphasizes.

The use of the word ‘pride’ seems fitting given the past four years of the State Department acknowledging every obscure LGBTQ ‘visibility day’ and allowing alphabet flags to be flown willy nilly all over government buildings.

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Other flags, such as Black Lives Matter, have also previously been flown over US embassies under Biden’s State Department.

STARS AND STRIPES: The new policy from the Trump administration permits only the American flag to be flown at U.S. facilities at home and abroad, effectively blocking U.S. embassies and outposts from flying Pride and Black Lives Matter flags. More details. https://t.co/5DCzfpP8vs pic.twitter.com/8527ExA5Zs— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 22, 2025

America until a few days ago, most of the rest of NATO, Australia, and unfortunately NZ still, to some degree.

Joe left this in the Oval Office desk:

It’s quite different to the Leftist name-calling that his DNC handlers gave him to parrot over the last 5 years, such as “fascist” “Hitler” “threat to democracy” etc. and Trump supporters as “garbage” and “deplorables” etc. Did his wife Jill write it?

Many will now identify with this:

The risk of WW3 is now considerably reduced.

Despite all Biden-Blinken’s bans it looks like most western brands have found their way back into Russia, how much reciprocity in that is involved would be interesting to find out. The major hindrance for travellers remains Biden’s bans on western credit and debit cards, requiring exchanges of cash. Hopefully that will change under Trump.

from The Telegraph (UK)

Britain’s net zero plan is to nearly double the demand for electricity (for heating, transport and artificial intelligence) and switch off most of the supply (gas and much of nuclear). If you think that does not add up, you are right. Perhaps Ed (Miliwatt-hour) Miliband is deliberately showing Keir (Starter-Motor) Starmer how barmy the plan is because this week the policy came unstuck – perhaps for good – in six different ways.

First Sir Keir had to watch Donald (Drill Baby Drill) Trump tear up electric-vehicle mandates and turn decisively against wind power. America, China and India are all going to increase their emissions by much more than we can possibly save. Not that wind power actually saves much anyway when a 2-megawatt wind turbine requires 1300 tonnes of concrete and 300 tonnes of steel.

Second, Starmer may have watched the Senate confirmation hearings of my good friend Chris Wright as America’s energy secretary. Wright’s innovations pretty well invented the shale revolution, turning America into now the world’s biggest producer of both oil and gas, ahead of even Saudi Arabia and Russia. That could have been our boom too. When Wright testified in the UK parliament in 2014 he said Britain had a fantastic opportunity to be a huge producer of shale gas, bigger than the original North Sea boom, but only if we stopped footling around. Yet Miliwatt-hour has now even shut down even conventional drilling in the North Sea.

Third, Starmer may have nervously checked the wind speeds and noticed that on the calm morning of “Dunkelflaute” Wednesday this week just 1 per cent of our electricity came from wind power, even less from solar and a whopping 10 per cent had to be imported at exorbitant cost to prevent the lights going out. How’s that for “energy security”? Norwegians are increasingly fed up with having to supply our power so this is not, to coin a phrase, sustainable.

Fourth, Miliwatt-hour’s deputy, Torsten (Alarm) Bell MP, told a massive inexactitude from the despatch box: “Unless we deliver secure, home-grown renewable energy through cheap renewable generation, there is no energy security ahead”. Cheap? The owners of gas turbines and even diesel generators are licking their lips at the panicky price spikes that now come regularly when the wind fails. The wind business nowadays expects £85 a megawatt hour for power from offshore wind, well above the price of getting it from gas – and then we must add billions to our bills for expanding, backing up and balancing the increasingly stretched and unstable grid that comes with wind. Unreliables are not cheaper than reliables however often Bell and Miliwatt claim they are.

Fifth, Sir Chris Stark (Staring Bonkers), the chief exec of the far-left Climate Change Committee, told a Commons committee that he does not believe projections of how much power the artificial intelligence industry and its data centres will need – and also that he plans to put data centres near where the power is generated. The idea that Google Deep Mind will relocate to the Moray Firth is for the birds (those that haven’t been chopped up by wind turbines). As for demand, Sam Bowman of Works in Progress points out that the US state of Georgia alone, with 11 million people, is planning for 20 gigawatts of extra demand in the next four years to cope with AI. Our total peak demand in the UK is 60 gigawatts. Britain’s hitherto fabulous strength in AI is being strangled by net zero.

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That had big consequences on inflation and government indebtedness, both of which more than doubled. Who benefited from it? There’s a line-up of the scammers in Davos presently.

How the Medical Council NZ (MCNZ) behaved during Covid is now clear: it acted on unreliable health advice from the W.H.O.

It’s not believable to claim the MCNZ did its best with what it knew at the time. If it was good enough for some members of the public, and doctors, nurses and medical specialists, to question the government’s Covid narrative, it should be expected that MCNZ would do the same.

There were no public debates about the health, social and economic gains and losses from border closures, lockdowns, social distancing, masking, vaccine mandates versus the advantages of natural immunity and repurposing of existing drugs such as ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine.

The MCNZ has become so financially entrenched in the pharmaceutical industry that it was unthinkable to discard their directives to prioritise alternative health measures at negligible financial cost.

During Covid, with the exception of hand hygiene, our medical experts neglected the virtues of good old-fashioned sunshine, fresh air, nutritious food, sufficient sleep, daily exercise and reliable health remedies such as throat gargles and nasal sprays.

MCNZ forced doctors who refused to comply out of the NZ medical profession. Some left the industry entirely, leaving a shortage of skilled staff; some left to work in the alternative medicine industry, which is experiencing a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.1 per cent “highlighting the shifting trends towards personal health and wellness that have boosted the market despite global economic challenges”, and some doctors simply abandoned the medical industry altogether.

Those who could not afford to leave the industry stayed by keeping their heads down and their mouths shut.

My preference is to consult doctors who recommend better lifestyle choices to address health issues rather than swallowing pills. Having surpassed the grand old age of three score and ten years in generally good health without daily medication, I am an anomaly. Workers in the health system ask me, incredulously, ‘What, no daily medications?’

Most New Zealanders over the age of 70 years are prescribed four or more medicines, and a small number take as many as 20 different medicines.

(Healthify NZ)

Pharmaceuticals are essential, that is not up for debate: medications and treatments save lives and prevent suffering, but has our medical profession become so financially dependent on Big Pharma that they dare not look elsewhere?

Obviously not all doctors. Former MCNZ Member Richard Aston testified in court about the non-public discord between MCNZ members facing the government’s Covid diktats. The MCNZ fully supported the government’s stance and disciplined resistant members, particularly those who criticised mandatory vaccination, including pregnant women and children, without the supporting safety data.

What alarmed me at the time was the majority of MCNZ members were aggressive in their response to all these ‘anti-vax’ doctors, calling for harsh, vindictive even, sanctions for even the most minor of cases.

Former MCNZ Member Richard Aston

Did the MCNZ fall into lockstep with public health officials after debating Covid policy behind closed doors and deciding to take a more lucrative financial route?

Did our public health decision makers consider the political and financial ramifications of Covid policies, including our affiliation with the WHO?

The Ardern Government spent $70.4 billion on its Covid response, which was money wasted on measures that failed to stop the spread of the disease and decimated the NZ economy.

To put the Covid spend into perspective, the total annual public health budget for 2024 is a paltry $5.72 billion.

While NZ businesses were forced into financial failure, the medical profession thrived from Covid.

A lot of money changed hands for MCNZ members to dispense masks, jab needles in arms, diagnose Covid with inappropriate and unreliable RATs and dish out experimental anti-virals with serious side effects.

Going forward, will the MCNZ redeem itself? It certainly hasn’t displayed any appetite for voluntarily admitting its mistake in the flawed Covid responses, despite being outed in the courts, for example in February 2022 when Justice Cooke ruled in the High Court that the vaccine mandates issued for New Zealand Police and Defence Force workers were unlawful, and more recently with ACC now accepting claims for Covid vaccine injury.

The MCNZ has given itself two headaches: the first is erosion of trust in the NZ medical industry and the second is the growth of its competition in the form of natural and alternative medicines and practices. Both problems are entirely of the MCNZ’s own making.

Suze sees herself as a New Zealander whose heritage shaped but does not define, and believes unless we protect our rights and freedoms they will be taken off us by a few powerful people. This article was first published HERE

by Peter Emmanuelsen

President Trump has just signed an executive order to ban the creation of a central bank digital currency to protect people from the risks of CBDCs.

According to the executive order, CBDCs ”threaten the stability of the financial system, individual privacy, and the sovereignty of the United States.”

This is very good news for freedom. Already we see problems with banks having targeted dissidents and people with the ”wrong” opinions.

But with a CBDC, it could give the state enormous power to track everyone’s purchases and potentially ban people from buying or selling of they are deemed to be dissidents of the state.

The truth about digital ID

The year is 2025 and you live in Norway. You are logging in to the government health website to check your covid status and to get the QR code for the covid passport. As you login, you need to verify your identity by using your digital ID.

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It would open up the doors for a social credit score system, where you would need a digital ID in order to use your digital currency stored in your digital wallet.

The next step could be the introduction of a social credit score, which would ban anyone with a low score from buying and selling.

Such a system would be incredibly dangerous and a major threat to freedom and democracy.

But that has now been banned in the USA.

Will any other countries follow? [Hopefully —Eds]

Apogee: the furthest or highest point, culmination, mostly used to refer to the point in the orbit of an object such as a satellite that is at the greatest distance from the centre of the earth or other planet.

The whole estuary area is one of Waikanae’s taonga (treasures) and a must visit for anyone who comes here. We’ve posted many pictures taken in it.